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, Auckland, Augustß. The .dispute between Mr J, Bigelow and the local 'shipwrights has terminated, the former having agreed to reemploy those whom he had discharged. A five-roomed cottage in Stratfordstreet, Parnell, has been burned down. It was insured for £4OO in the New Zealand Office, and the lurnitnre for £76 by tbo Nortli British Company,. _ Mr A. Martin, well known in art circles in this city, died somewhat suddenly list night at his residence at Ellorslie. ; .
_ CURIBICHORCH, AugUßtß. ' During July 494caBes were relieved by the Charitable Aid Board, against 477 in July last. A crowded public meeting in theOddfellow's Hall to-night passed, almost unanimously a motion approving the /City Council's proposal to borrow £50,000 for the construction of the Municipal gasworks. . V
. _ Dunedin, August 8. Gideon Williamson, the man- injured on Parakanui Cliffs on Monday night by a falling stone, died in the Hospital to-day, having • never recovered consciousness. He leaves a wifo aud a large family.
A Dangerous Character.
New Plymouth, August 9. ■Robert Jackson, alias PatrickLoughran, who has' by means of skeleton keys been robbing stores and shops in New Plymouth and every torn, between this and \Yimganui was brought up at the Police ' Court this morning, charged with breaking into the Railway Station at Patea, and stealing tickets to the value Of.ovei i! 7, also doing the same thing at the Waverley Railway Station; also breaking into a store - at Karamea, and stealing goods. He was remanded to Patea to appear on Friday next. This burglar has been -recognised by the Napier authorities from a photo taken at the instance of the police here as Patrick Loughran, who was only liberated from the Lyttelton ,gaol on March 16th last. After serving' a sentence of five years for housebreaking at Napier, Loughran after being liberated from gaol returned to Napier where lie committed burglary for which ho is wanted, and then fled to West Coast apparently, and gradually worked up to New Plymouth. Unfortunately the police had not received a photo of this man after his liberation from gaol or hp would not have gone about as he did, without being closely watched as to his msans of livlihood,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2972, 9 August 1888, Page 2
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362TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2972, 9 August 1888, Page 2
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